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Granite State

Granite State proper noun: official nickname for New Hampshire: a state of the United States.

Proper noun

the Granite State

  1. Official nickname for New Hampshire: a state of the United States.
    • The action he inaugurated culminated in the law for the suppression of trampage, that has accomplished such good in the Granite State, and that has been so generally copied in other states.1882, Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock, The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine, page 382

Words formed from Granite State

Questions about Granite State

What does Granite State mean?
Granite State means official nickname for New Hampshire: a state of the United States.
What part of speech is Granite State?
Granite State is a proper noun.

Words near Granite State in the dictionary

  1. Granite Falls
  2. Granite Flat
  3. Granite Hills
  4. granite poison
  5. Granite Rock
  6. Granite State
  7. Granite Stater
  8. granitelike
  9. granites
  10. Graniteville
  11. graniteware

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